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                        The Waypoint Team

Jeff Blanton is the president and founder of Waypoint Leadership.  He has spent over 25 years managing large strategic projects with a focus on engineering and operations in the medical device and consumer products industries   He is also the creator of the Strategic Project Navigator™ and an author, public speaker and certified project manager. Brett Briskin is a program executive with more than 20 years experience in the entertainment, retail and manufacturing industries. At Waypoint, he provides executive leadership for enterprise level strategic projects and oversees retail and manufacturing technology and process improvement projects, cutting through the chaos to bring projects in on time.  
Larry Crane, Ph.D is a successful leader with a proven track record of transforming technologies into profitable new products. At Waypoint he brings creative and technical problem solving to clients that help them condense their timelines and better resource their top priorities in the areas of strategic portfolio management, new product development projects and operations management.   Jeffrey Gotro, Ph.D is a technology executive with experience in new product development. As an Executive Project Leader, he oversees new product commercialization, process improvement projects, and R&D and engineering operations in early-stage companies and brings accountability and urgency to technical teams while making fans in Finance
Kami Jacobsen is an executive with experience in developing healthcare businesses, commercializing products and managing growth in large companies and start-ups. Her focus at Waypoint is to help clients successfully execute new product commercialization and merger and acquisition integrations by delivering the strategic outcomes that were envisioned when the projects were begun.                James Kennedy has over 20 years experience in strategic project management in industries ranging from high-tech to retail products. At Waypoint, he assists clients with strategic project implementations such as the development of financial and technology infrastructure, process improvements and merger and acquisition integration projects, to deliver the money on promised cost reduction initiatives.  
Bob Lane has more than 20 years of experience leading business startups, expansions and turnarounds with high-growth technology companies. His focus as an Executive Project Leader includes operations and facilities projects, supply chain optimization projects, program management and continuous improvement activities that scale organizations, create value and lead rapid change. He is an expert and certified instructor on Lean Operations. Dennis O'Brien is an executive with over 25 years of experience in global commercial, strategic marketing and operations in the medical device, pharmaceutical and CPG industries. He provides executive leadership for Waypoint clients in new product launch and new operations programs that are game changing and take companies to the next level of growth.  He also focuses on leadership issues in commercial operating and manufacturing environments to create solutions that increase profitability.
Walter Gacek is a business development executive with over 25 years of experience working in sales, manufacturing and engineering in the medical device industry.  His primary focus at Waypoint is to help clients find the right assistance in the execution of strategic, business-critical projects. He also is experienced in all aspects of medical device contract manufacturing, outsourcing, and product and manufacturing transfers.
   
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